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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.

Thomas Sowell

The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
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No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
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The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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